Tiling with Polyominoes - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
"Mathematicians have proved that the general question of whether it's possible to cover the plane with identical copies of a given finite set of tiles is, in principle, computationally undecidable. In other words, there's no cookbook recipe or handbook
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Tilt-A-Whirl Chaos - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The amusement park Tilt-A-Whirl spins its passengers in one direction, then another... A rider never knows exactly what to expect next. Yet these complicated, surprising movements arise from a remarkably simple geometry. A passenger rides in one of seven
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Tomoko Fuse Origami Quilts - Jeff Kerwood
These origami quilts were designed and made by Jeff Kerwood, using the modules developed by Tomoko Fuse, a Japanese origami artist universally acknowledged as the master of modular or unit origami. In modular origami, the model is built up from multiple
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Tomás Oliveira e Silva
From an assistant professor in the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. On the Collatz problem: maximum number tested (N): 91·2^50 = 102456891522678784.
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Topics in Calculus - E. Lee Lady; University of Hawaii
Files in PDF, DVI, and Postscript formats, to help students learn to use calculus in applications and to have confidence in setting up formulas using derivatives and integrals. Contents include: a conceptual approach to applications of integration, max-min
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Topics in Geometry - Don Shimamoto, Swarthmore College
Six sketches related to hyperbolic geometry. One illustrates that hyperbolic reflection in the Poincare disk corresponds to Euclidean inversion. Two sketches illustrate transformations that may or may not be hyperbolic rotation and translation. One sketch
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Topics in Mathematical Recreations
Arithmetic and geometric puzzles; polyhedra; fractals and chaos; board and positional puzzles; pi and its calculations, and tiling patterns, which can be thought of as making an infinite polyhedron. Includes a bibliography ranging from Abbott's Flatland
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The Topological Zoo - The Geometry Center
For mathematicians and educators: a visual dictionary of surfaces and other mathematical objects, consisting primarily of movies, still images and interactive pictures. Can be used to complement classroom presentations, research papers and talks. Each
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Topology - Dave Rusin; The Mathematical Atlas
A short article designed to provide an introduction to general topology, the study of sets on which one has a notion of "closeness" - enough to decide which
functions defined on it are continuous. Thus it is a kind of generalized geometry (we are still
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Tournament of Towns - Math Net, University of Toronto
A worldwide problem solving competition in mathematics. The contest attracts students of all mathematical interests and abilities with its inclusive rules and creative problems -- some as challenging as those of the International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Tower of Hanoi on the Web - Miroslav Kolar
The legend: A group of Eastern monks are the keepers of three towers on which sit 64 golden rings. Originally all 64 rings were stacked on one tower with each ring smaller than the one beneath. The monks are to move the rings from this first tower to
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Traffic Jam - Math Forum
Equal numbers of people face each other with one open slot between them. Everybody faces the open slot. If there are 6 people there will be 7 slots, 6 of
which must always have people in them. People must attempt to exchange places without turning around.
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Transversal of a Latin Square - Jay's Corner
A transversal in a Latin Square is a collection of positions, one from each row and one from each column, so that the colors that are in these positions are all different. This page shows an example of a transversal in a 4x4 Latin square
See also Transversals
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The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) - Vasek Chvátal
The problem: given a finite number of cities and the cost of travel between each pair of them, find the cheapest way of visiting them all and returning to your starting point. This site includes a link to TSPLIB, Gerhard Reinelt's library of some hundred
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The Travelling Monkey - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
One of the classic problems of planning ahead concerns a traveling salesman who must visit customers in a number of cities scattered across the country and then return home. The problem is to find the shortest possible route visiting each city only once.
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Travelling Salesman's Problem - Gunno Törnberg
Algorithms to solve the travelling salesman's problem (a travelling salesman is to visit a number of cities; how to plan the trip so every city is visited once and just once and the whole trip is as short as possible?) Links to Java applets; the shell
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The Travelling Salesman's Problem - Manu Konchady
A trucking or delivery company is focused on optimum delivery cost. This can be achieved by using a system which determines the best highway route for each load. An optimum highway route can be displayed on a map. A route with 16 nodes is used to test
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